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V IMPROVEMENT IN CULINARY VESSELS.

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TO ALL WHOM IT MAY CONCERN:

Be it known thatI, W. H. BENNETT, of the city, county, and State of New Yorlr, have invented n w and useful Improvement in Culinary Vessels; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art tomake and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which-- Figure 1 represents a vertical sectional view of my invention.

Figure '2 represents a plan or top view, partly in s'ection, of the same.

Figure 3 is an inverted plan'view of the inner perforated receptacle.

Similar letters of reference indicate correspo'ndingparts.

This invention'relates to certain improvements on the cooking-apparatus for which Letters Patent, No. 47,675, were granted to John Zimmermann, on the 9th day of May, 1865.

The invention consists in discontinuing the perforated bottom of the inner vessel, so that it may not reach beyond the'perforated inner wallof the vessel, to permit the space between the perforated inner and the outer .walls of the vessel to be cleaned.

- In the apparatus invented by Zimmermann, the perforated bottom reached to the outer wall of the vessel,

and thereby closed the lower end of the annular space formed between the two walls of the vessel. The said space could not be thor'onghly cleaned, andimpurities soon accumulatedtherein,,making thewhole vessel useless. The invention also consistsin combining with thecp'oki[li -vessel, andwith the perforated vessel, an upper vessel, which is, by means of vertical partitions, divided into a number of compartments for containing difi'erent kinds of liquids, such as ten, coifce,'milk, Ste. By theaddition of this vessel the apparatus is perfected as a universal cooking-device.

i A represents the hot-water vessel, which rests upon the stove as-described in the aforesaid Letters Patent. B is the perforated vessel, enclosed by a sheet-metal casing, C, as shown, and as described in the aforesaid Letters Patent. The bottom, a, of the vessel B does not reach to the side of.tho case C, as in the aforesaid Letters Patent, but ends at the outside of the sides of the vessel B, as shown, so that the spacc left between the sides of B and C may be left open at the under sideto allow the insertion of a brush or cloth for cleaning purposes. 7 If' desired, the braces 12 b may be used to connect the sides of the vessels B and C, as shown in fig, 3; but-these braces may be omitted. D is a vessel, set above the vessel B, and resting .upon the same, being of similar outer shape and material. The vessel D is divided into a number of compartments by means of vertical partitions c c, as shown, each compartment having its own faucet, d, for drawing 0d the liquid contents, and each having its separate cover, or all having one cover, 0, as may be desired.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is- The combination of the vessel D, divided into various compartments by the vertical partitions 0, each compartment having its own tap, the perforated receptacle B leaving the space between its sides and the outer casing C open,- and widest at the bottom, and the hot-water vessel A, all arranged as described for the purpose sPecified.- i I W. H. BENNETT.

Witnesses:

WM. F. McNAMAnn, ALEX. F. Ronnn'rs, 

